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Here’s a picture of Chickenbot Mark III on the morning of the State Championship. We worked long hours on Saturday to get it ready, and everything works including the autonomous routine. We didn’t get much driving practice, so we’ll have to wait till the matches to find out how reliable it is.
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153 FTC teams competed this year in Washington state. We were among the 36 teams that moved on to the State Championship. We can move on to the World Championship by finishing in the top seven at State. The 2019 FIRST Championship will be held in Houston, TX, from Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – 12:00am […]
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We’ve had major snow this week, so there’s been a change in plans. The FTC State Championship has been rescheduled for Sunday, March 17, at the ShoWare Center in Kent, WA.
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ChickenBot MK III is a work in progress. Changes are: 1. a scoring bucket that extends to the top of the lander and deposits minerals 2. a surgical-tube spinning collector for picking up minerals, including a horizontal extender for reaching into the crater. To accomodate these changes we had to: 1. redesign the lift module […]
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Washington State championship is scheduled for Sunday, February 10, at the ShoWare Center in Kent, WA. At a strategy meeting when we reconvened after the holidays, we wrestled with what our goals should be. Should we make incremental changes to ChickenBot Mk II to become a better partner and irritating defender? Or should we build […]
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On Saturday, December 15, 2018 we competed in the Feynman Interleague competition at the Amazon Doppler Building. Robot performed well all day. At the end of the day we were selected for an alliance by first place finisher CPR. We won semis and finals without losing a match, ensuring we moved on to state. We […]
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Here’s CB2 on the day of the Feynman Interleague tournament. New USB hub with separate battery pack, duct tape skirt, some structural reinforcements.
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Here’s the next version of our ChickenBot, with a new chassis and new mecanum drive.
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Although we only won two matches today it was a great day. Our robot modules were failing right and left but we were able to use our 5 and ten minute breaks to rebuild entire mechanisms. Very fun to see us running with one person carrying the robot while another is tightening an axle to […]
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We’re taking this bot to the second meet.